State sues for summertime UI ROTC building fire
A June 2011 fire at the University of Idaho Naval ROTC Science Building sparked the state of Idaho to sue the federal government for $1.6 million.
State attorneys said members of the U.S. Navy’s Reserve Officers Training Corps negligently caused the UI fire during a student barbecue outside the building. The fire started after students dumped the ashes and briquettes from the barbecue into a flowerbed outside the building. The ashes set the flowerbed on fire, which spread to the building.
The state is seeking $250,000 for the deductible it paid to the buildings insurer, Travelers Lloyds Insurance Co., and $1.4 million for repairs estimated by the insurance company. The state
also seeks reimbursement for money spent renovating another building the UI ROTC used while their building awaited repairs.
Fugue hosts the release party for their 43rd edition
The University of Idaho’s literary journal Fugue held the release party for their 43rd edition at One World Café on Jan. 11.
Fugue has been promoting literature since 1990, said Editor-in-Chief
Laura Pizzo.
The release party featured readings from both Robert Wrigley and Buddy Levy, two distinguished authors based in the Northwest.
Robert Wrigley has won various prizes and awards for his poetry and teaches at UI, while Buddy Levy graduated from UI, taught both at UI and Washington State University, and has written for various publications.
Along with showcasing new literary works, the journal also awards cash prizes for poetry and prose in their annual spring contest, and the winner’s work is featured in the summer-fall edition, which Pizzo said is the most recently released edition.
She said Fugue is edited by graduate students in UI’s English and Creative Writing Programs and offers new and experienced writers the opportunity to showcase their work.
It also offers experience to graduate students in the editing world, and shows them firsthand what the process is to getting published and what editors look for, Pizzo said.